date:Jan 17, 2013
The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, assessed 230 fish stocks to see if abundance of fish in the stocks at a given time could be used to accurately measure the potential harvest of fish from those same stocks. The results showed that in 82 percent of stocks, the potential harvest was influenced by everything from environmental conditions to totally random events.
There have been competing ideas about productivity, said Ray Hilborn, UW professor